Vietnamese student pleads guilty to drug supply after two die at Sydney Defqon. 1

A VIETNAMESE student has admitted to supplying drugs at a Sydney music festival where two revellers fatally overdosed earlier this month. He was caught with $1000 of a party drug hidden in soy sauce bottles.

• Two people die at Defqon. 1

A VIETNAMESE student has admitted to supplying drugs at a Sydney music festival where two revellers fatally overdosed earlier this month.

Police allegedly caught Vo Dang Khoa Phan with $1000 with of the party drug GHB hidden in 20 soy sauce bottles at the Defqon. 1 event in Penrith­ on September 15.

The 22-year-old, who is on bail, has pleaded guilty at Penrith Local Court to supplying a commercial quantity of drugs.

Vo Dang Khoa Phan has pleaded guilty to supplying drugs. Picture: Dylan Robinson

He was caught with the party drug GHB. Picture: Dylan Robinson

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He was at the hardcore dance festival where two died from heart attacks and 700 of the 30,000 attendees were treated by paramedics, who were responding to multiple reports of suspected drug overdoses.

Edensor Park man Jos­eph Pham, 23, and 21-year-old Melbourne woman Diana Nguyen collapsed at Sydney International Reg­atta Centre and died.

Joseph Pham died at the event this year after a suspected overdose. Picture: Facebook

A dozen more people were hospitalised, three in critical condition.

A 28-year-old woman and a 19-year-old ­man have both since been discharged while a 20-year-old seriously ill man’s condition has stabilised but he remains in hospital.

The Defqon festival has a clouded history, with the two latest deaths bringing the number of fatalities there to four in five years.

There have been four deaths in the last five years of the event, which is held in Penrith. Picture: Supplied

In 2015 Nigel Pauljevic was found unconscious in a tent at the festival and later died. And in 2013 James Munro died of a suspected ecstasy overdose.

The tragedy reignited calls for drug testing at festivals, but police and Premier Gladys Berejiklian have ruled that out.

Phan was among 10 people charged with drug supply, including two 17-year-old girls who were attempting to smuggle 120 capsules into the event ­inside their bodies.

Phan will be sentenced on November 16.